THE EASE & JOY OF MORNINGS (December 2018)

Join Kozan for “Ease and Joy of Mornings,” December 16—a quiet morning designed to introduce you to the art of zazen. It is an ideal entryway for beginners and even intermediate or long-time meditators who want a refresher course on this “dharma gate of joy and ease” as described by Zen Master, Dogen-Zenji.

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Episode Description: In this talk, Dr. Dunne discusses both our conditioned and conditional relationship to self, as well as the importance of ritual and lineage in shifting those conditions. He uses several visual exercises to illustrate that a buddha is “one who is not locked into any context.” Dr. Dunne sets about liberating our Western sense […]

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Episode Description: In this session, the faculty address a number of challenging questions. Questions include: “When we talk about mind what are we talking about?”. “What role does a vibrational “divine ecosystem” play in scientific investigation?” To help keep these podcasts freely available, we hope you will consider making a suggested donation of $25 to our […]

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Episode Description: In this talk, Dr. Thompson focuses on two key concepts: cognition as embodied action and the notion of cognitive ecology. Providing an overview of 4E cognition, an approach which emphasizes embodiment, embededness, extendedness and enaction Dr. Thompson sketches out the sociocultural processes that are part of cognition and discusses the implications of the cognitive […]

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Series Description: All experience, thought, action and contemplative practice occurs in physical and social contexts. In current scientific research on situated and embodied cognition, it has been argued that various aspects of these contexts, including those of our communicative technologies, serve as extended aspects of mind. This innovative program focuses on the relationships between technology, complex systems, […]